Author Archives: Kelly Sedinger

Speaking of Albums: “Frank Sinatra Sings For Only the Lonely”

Each place I go, only the lonely goSome little small cafeThe songs I know, only the lonely knowEach melody recalls a love that used to be. Look, for the purposes of this post, let’s just stipulate that there’s no way … Continue reading

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Happy Birthday to the Maker!

 Happy birthday to George Lucas! It’s no accident, or exaggeration, when I say that George Lucas is the biggest influence on my storytelling. Star Wars imprinted on me at a very young age, and it is still my guiding star, even … Continue reading

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Something for Thursday

 I’ve made it one of my many missions in life to sing the praises of the United States Marine Band, because they’re great, but let’s not forget the other armed services! The United States Army Band is also really good. Here … Continue reading

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Tone Poem Tuesday

  A repeat today (I think), but it’s been a while (I hope). Felix Mendelssohn’s The Hebrides is a concert overture, inspired by the composer’s journeys in Scotland and specifically his tour of the Hebrides islands and a basalt cavern called … Continue reading

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The Strooping of the Waffles! (Or is it the Waffling of the Stroop?)

 So, like many others in this COVID hellscape, the search for entertainment of a more cheerful kind, to take our minds off the dystopian virus-afflicted nightmare world in which we live, has led us to The Great British Baking Show. … Continue reading

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And now, a Timeless Sports Moment

 Before the Long Dark Time of Boring Russian Men began in 1992 in Albertville, lasting for eighteen years, there was Brian Boitano in Calgary. Why this, today? Why, indeed….

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Something for Thursday

 It’s fun to look up live performances of anime music on YouTube, because Japan takes this stuff very seriously but also does a lot of interesting stuff with this sort of thing. If you want just standard orchestral renditions, you … Continue reading

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Tone Poem Tuesday

The sky is beginning to show some streaks of light over in the East there, behind our mount’in. The morning star always gets wonderful bright the minute before it has to go,–doesn’t it? -Stage Manager, Our Town (Act I)  It seems … Continue reading

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And now, some space art!

 I saw this on the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Flickr stream. It’s a cool illustration of the formation of a planet. All that lightning and whatnot is, I must admit, somewhat inspirational as “sensawunda space opera” pictures go. Description … Continue reading

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A 16 for Roger’s 16

 Roger has been blogging for 16 years, so in honor of that, here is Chopin’s Prelude No. 16 in B-flat minor, opus 28, for solo piano. Give it a listen, it’s all of a minute long! Surely you can manage … Continue reading

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